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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). Search the whole document.
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Lake Saint Francis (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Fort Taylor (Texas, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Sackett's Harbor (New York, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
Lake Ontario (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Crosswicks (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
Bucks County (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to
New York (New York, United States) (search for this): entry brown-jacob
Brown, Jacob, 1775-1828
Military officer; born in Bucks county, Pa., May 9, 1775, of Quaker parentage.
He taught school at Crosswicks.
N. J., for three years, and passed two
Medal presented to General Brown by Congress. years in surveying lands in Ohio.
In 1798 he opened a select school in the city of New York, and studied law. Some of his newspaper essays attracted the notice of
General Brown's monument. Gen. Alexander Hamilton, to whom he became secretary while that officer was acting general-in-chief of the army raised to fight the French.
On leaving that service he went to northern New York, purchased lands on the banks of the Black River, not many miles from Sackett's Harbor, and founded the flourishing settlement of Brownsville, where he erected the first building within 30 miles of Lake Ontario.
There he became county judge; colonel of the militia in 1809; brigadier-general in 1810; and, in 1812, received the appointment of commander of the frontier from Oswego to